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SUMMARY OF FELLOWS ACTIVITIES IN THE YEAR TO 31 JULY 2013
The Warden
Besides his duties as Warden, John Vickers continued to work on the economics of banking reform, on which
he gave the Angelo Costa lecture in Rome in December and the Anglo-German Foundation lecture in Berlin
in June. He is also working with Mark Armstrong on some questions in incentive theory. He was awarded a
British Academy Presidents Medal.
Senior Research Fellows
Dan Segal has been working on finite groups and compact topological groups, more recently exploring
possible applications to pseudofinite groups. He has given seminar talks at several universities and invited
talks at conferences in Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and France. He has been supervising two doctoral
students.
Michael Teper has pursued his research in theoretical high energy physics and has published two articles on
this work. He taught two graduate courses in Oxford Theoretical Physics, participated in an extended
Workshop on Lattice Field Theory at the Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics in Florence, and
gave seminars in Swansea and Plymouth.
John Cardy has been conducting research in theoretical condensed matter physics and has published several
research papers and a long review article as well as giving graduate lectures in Physics. He organised a
semester-long programme at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics in Stony Brook, and participated in
conferences in Geneva, Kyoto and Seoul, where he gave a plenary address. He also served on the committees
of various international scientific bodies and as an Associate Editor for Journal of Statistical Physics. He is
currently co-editing a memorial volume for Ken Wilson, 1982 Physics Nobel Laureate.
Ian Maclean continued to work on the history of theological interpretation in the late Renaissance. He has
published four articles on aspects of early modern intellectual history, given lectures in Paris, Edinburgh,
Harvard, Ohio and Basel, continued as co-editor of the Oxford-Warburg Studies, and served on various other
editorial boards.
Paul Brand continued work on English legal history, publishing two articles and presenting papers in Erice
(Sicily), Royaumont (France), Ann Arbor and Michigan (USA) and in Leeds, Glasgow and Harlaxton. He
acted as graduate interviewer for medieval history for the Faculty of History in Oxford for 20 12/13 and taught
a legal history course at Ann Arbor in March and April 2013. In the summer of 2012 he became one of the
lead investigators of a major three year AHRC-financed Magna Carta project.
Guy Goodwin-Gill continues to work on refugee, migration and forced displacement, in an environment
characterised by increasing antipathy and security concerns. He lectured on statelessness and protection at
the Refugee Studies Centre, gave a keynote address to the Centres 30th Anniversary Conference; spoke on
credibility to the Irish Refugee Council in Dublin; hosted a conference in College on Refuge from Inhumanity
and spoke in Berlin on asylum. He advised on contemporary issues, including diplomatic asylum, contributed
to the 2012 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law and published a chapter on Palestine,
UN membership and popular representation.
Noel Malcolm spent most of the year conducting research on a topic in Venetian and Ottoman history. This
involved visits to archives in Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Malta, Spain, France and Austria, as well as much work
in British archives and libraries..
Cohn Burrow has published a book on Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity (Oxford, 2013), as well as essays
on What is a Shakespearean Tragedy?, on Shakespeare Classicism and on E.R. Curtiuss European
Literature and the Latin Middle Ages. He is working to complete his book on The Language of Imitation and
his volume on Elizabethan literature for the Oxford English Literary History, in addition to serving as early
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modern editor for Review of English Studies, as Editor in Chief for the literature element of Oxford
Handbooks Online, and as a regular reviewer for The London Review ofBooks.
Nicholas Rodger has continued his work on the third volume of his Naval History of Britain, besides
participating in teaching an undergraduate history Further Subject and supervising four (now three) doctoral
students. During the year, he has published two articles, and given the First Sea Lords Lecture.
Angela McLean researches the dynamics evolution and control of infectious diseases, particularly HIV and
Hepatitis C. With colleagues from Zoology and the Nuffield Department of Medicine she has recently started
a major new project to study the clearance of chronic viral infections. The plan is to use mathematical models
of infection dynamics to draw together information from diverse genetic, immunological and virological data
to understand why some patients clear chronic infections and thus improve treatments for all patients.
Cecilia Heyes began a new interdisciplinary project on the cultural evolution of mentalizing the neurological
and psychological processes that enable humans to ascribe thoughts and feelings to others. She also published
ten articles on body movement imitation, facial self-recognition and mirror neurons, and gave invited lectures
on her research in Amsterdam, Aegina, Cambridge, Erice, Montpelier, Nijmegen, Stockholm, and at the
British Neuroscience Associations Festival of Neuroscience at the Barbican Centre in London.
Andrew Burrows completed a major project on A Restatement of the English Law of Unjust Enrichment and
the book was published in December 2012. He gave talks about the project to academics and students in
Oxford and Cambridge and to practitioners in London and Manchester. He taught and was an assessor on the
Oxford BCL and gave lectures on Contract to the Judicial College.
Simon Hornblowers commentary on Herodotus book 5 will be published by CUP in November 2013. He is
now working on a commentary on Herodotus book 6 in the same series, in collaboration with Chris Pelling,
Regius Professor of Greek. He has also completed a commentary (with introduction, Greek text and English
translation) on Lykophrons Alexandra for OUR He has given seminar and conference papers relating to this,
and an article Lykophron and Epigraphy: the Value and Function of Cult Epithets in the Alexandra will be
published in Classical Quarterly 2014. He now plans a book on Lykophron and the Hellenistic World, to be
offered to OUP.
Nicola Lacey has continued her research on ideas of responsibility for crime and on the comparative political
economy of criminalisation and punishment. She published several papers and a co-authored paper with
David Soskice on American Exceptionalism in Crime and Punishment. She is working on two papers with
Hanna Pickard on the theory and practice of punishment. She delivered lectures at Harvard, Duke, Cornell,
Boston University and Boston College, and the annual lecture of Jurisprudence, now published. In April she
held a visiting professorship at Harvard Law School. She is a co-author of the British Academys forthcoming
report on Prisons.
Tom Bridgeland has been working with homological techniques in algebraic geometry. He has completed his
project with Ivan Smith relating quadratic differentials to stability conditions on certain three-dimensional
Calabi-Yau categories. He is now studying derived categories of complex symplectic manifolds.
Stephen Smith continued work on the comparative history of popular religion in the Soviet Union and the
Peoples Republic of China and presented papers to seminars and conferences in Oxford (three times),
Cambridge, London, Lund and Rome. Much of the year was spent editing the 36 essays of the O.ford
Handbook of the History of Communism, due to appear in January 2014, and in his role as senior editor of the
journal, Past and Present.
Since joining in October 2012, Neil Kenny has brought to near completion a book on the use of tenses in early
modern France to refer to the dead. He organized a research seminar on the relation of early modern literature
and learning to social stratification. He gave two plenary lectures (Paris, Nottingham) and two other papers
(Oslo, Nottingham), participated in two further workshops, and published two articles. He served on four
advisory/editorial boards.
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University Academic Fellovs
Alexis Sanderson continued research on the Saiva religion. He has completed two articles: The Saiva
Literature (an analytic survey of the Sanskrit sources) and The Impact oflnscriptions on the Interpretation of
Ear/v Saiva Literature. He has also completed a monograph entitled Rules and Records: Saivism in the Light
ofNon-Prescriptive Evidence, has lectured in Groningen, Hamburg, Krakow, Kyoto, Tokyo, and Naples, and
has begun a project with Peter-Daniel Szanto to edit a major Buddhist Sanskrit text, of which they identified a
manuscript this summer, a work hitherto thought to have reached us only in a Tibetan translation.
Andrew Ashworth completed his 3-year Al-IRC project by holding one further workshop and then concluding
the writing ofa monograph, jointly with Professor Lucia Zedner (Corpus Christi College). He has published
four more books this year, two being co-edited collections, a new edition of his criminal law text (with
Professor Jeremy Horder ofKCL), and a book ofhis own essays, old and new, entitled Positive Obligations in
the Criminal Law.
Jane Hurnphries published two refereed articles and edited and introduced two special issues of journals.
Three book chapters are in press. Research using working womens autobiographies based on her ESRC
funded Memories of Industriousness: The Industrial Revolution and the Household Economy is ongoing.
New projects include: womens wages in the very long run (with Jacob Weisdorf); and trends in consumption
from records of burglary and housebreaking (with Sara l-lorrell). She is an editor, with Roderick Floud and
Paul Johnson, of a new edition of the Cambridge Economic History of Modem Britain (forthcoming). She is
the Chair of the History Faculty l3oard.
Jim Malcomson has continued his research into the economics of relational contracts. on-going relationships
in which not all details are fully specified in a legally enforceable way. (Standard examples are employment.
commercial supply relationships, and purchase of services.) During the year he published a survey chapter in
The Handbook of Organizational Economics (Princeton University Press, 2013) and wrote several papers on
this topic.
Cecilia Trifogli continued to work on the edition of the Questions on Aristotle Physics Lw the
]3thl
cent urv
English philosopher Geoffrey of Aspall (Latin text and English translation), which has been accepted for
publication in the British Academy series Auctores Brilannici Mcdii Aevi. This work now is at an advanced
stage and should be ready for submission by December 2013. She also acted as Chairman of the British
Academy iIiedieval Texts Editorial Committee.
Christopher Hop ran a British Academy Conference on the politics of fiscal squeeze and began editing a
volume on the subject. He co-edited a volume on a century of political science in Oxford, to be published by
Oxford University Press in 2014. He made progress with a book on recent changes in UK central government
and with his ESRC Professorial Fellowship project. He also served on an official Review of the Analytic
Capability of KM Treasury.
Hew Strachan has completed a book for Cambridge University Press called The Direction of War: Current
Strategy in Historical Perspective, which will be published in December 201 3. He has been heavily involved
with the preparations for the centenary of the First World War, serving on the UK and Scotland national
advisory committees and on the Comit Scientifique of the Mission du Centenaire in France. He has also
chaired the Imperial War Museums academic advisory committee for its new First World War galleries and
the Commonwealth War Graves Commissions 2014-18 Committee.
Andrew Wilson published a co-edited volume, The Roman Agricultural Economy: organization, Production,
and investment, (ed. with A. K. Bowman, OUP 2013), and several papers including journal articles on trans
Saharan trade (in Azania) and Capitolia (with J. Quinn. in Journal of Roman Studies). As part of the Oxford
Roman Economy Project he co-organised conferences and workshops in All Souls on Urban Economic Life in
Europe and the Mediterranean Before 1800 and on the Apion Estate Archive. He continued his excavations at
Utica (Tunisia) and Aphrodisias (Turkey).
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in 2012/13. Michael Sheringham completed articles on the legacies ofFrench literary avant-gardes, and the
novelist Annie Ernaux, while continuing with research on the archive in contemporary literature and thought.
His Everyday Life (OUP, 2006) appeared in French translation as Traverse.r dii quotidien and attracted
national media attention in France. Speaking engagements outside Oxford included conferences at Universit
Paris III, and York and Sussex Universities.
Ian Loader is currently working on a series of linked papers on The Purchase ol Security (with Benjamin
Goold and Angelica Thumala) drawing on material generated during two projects funded by The Leverhuirne
Trust. He is also in the early stages ofwriting a book (with Richard Sparks) with the working title ofA Better
POlitiCs (fC1i1le. He is a member ofthe Independent Commission on the Future ofthe Police in England and
Wales.
Chris Wickham has been on research leave this year. He has completed the translation ofRoma medievale, a
555-page book which is to appear with Viella Libreria Editrice in Rome in October 2013, and then in English
a year later with Oxford University Press. This year, he has researched and written a book provisionally titled
Rethinking the Origin of City Communes in Italy, 1050-1150, based on the Laurence Stone lectures given at
Princeton in May. which will also come out next year. with Princeton University Press. He gave the Prothero
Lecture for the Royal Historical Society in July 2013, and has co-edited Debating Open Access (June 2013)
with Nigel Vincent.
Boudewijn Sirks participated in four international conferences by invitation, and gave three lectures by
invitation (Larnaca. Paris, Tokyo). Eight publications appeared in this period. His research concentrated on
the Roman law of Antiquity and Late Antiquity and the Dutch 18th century law. He organised the yearly
conference of the Socit internationale de lHistoire des Droits de lAntiquit in Oxford in September 2012,
and the International Roman Law Moot in Oxford in April 2013.
The years highlight for Deborah Oxley was presenting the Tawney Lecture to the Economic History Society,
on 11ighiy Matters: Anthropometrics, Health and Gender Inequality in Britain (podcast
Deborah worked on the microeconomics of the household for the European Review
of Economic Hisloiy. on food and nutrition for Past and Present, on health and nutrition for the Cambridge
Economic Histoiy
of
Modern Britain, and on the Australian convict economy for the (Zambridge Economic
History of Australia. She is part of The Digital Panopticon, a new AHRC Digital Transformations Grant
examining the long-term consequences of penal policy in nineteenth-century Britain.
David Gellner spent much of this academic year acting as Anthropologys REF coordinator. He published
several papers deriving from his work on the Nepali diaspora in the UK. With colleagues, he organized three
workshops in July 2012, on religion in post-Maoist Nepal, on Nepali diasporas around the world, and on
religions in diaspora in general.
Vincent Crawford completed articles for the Journal of Economic Literature and Proceedings oft/ic National
Academy qfSciences USA and continued his work on other papers in theoretical and experimental behavioural
economics. He gave invited lectures at the Paris School of Economics and the University of York, and taught
a mini-course at York. He continues as editor of Games and Economic Behavior and a member of other
editorial boards.
Suzanne Aigrain conducted research on the detection and characterisation of exoplanets and the rotation and
activity of low-mass stars, co-authoring 10 refereed articles and giving invited talks in Aarhus, Tel Aviv and
Harvard. She started a new project with Stephen Roberts on the use of Bayesian non-parametric methods for
the analysis of exoplanet datasets. She also continues to teach and supervise undergraduate and graduate
students.
During academic year 2012/2013, Jeremy Waldron continued work on human dignity, institutional political
theory. and jurisprudence. publishing twelve articles. most notably How Law Protects Dignity (Cambridge
Law Journal), Separation of Powers (Boston College Law Review), and Stare Decisis and the Rule of Law
(Michigan Law Review). He also delivered a number of public lectures, including; Jurisprudence for
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Hegehogs (on the last phase of the late Ronald Dworkins philosophy of law) at Queens University Law
School, in Kingston, Ontario; and Dirtying One Hands by Working with Others, at Office and Responsibility:
A Symposium in Honor (/Dennis Thompson, at Harvard University.
Mark Armstrong spent the year working on issues to do with how frrns set prices for, and otherwise market,
their products. This included formulating models where sellers try make consumers rush their decision
making. and where sellers present their offers as a bargain in order to stimulate sales. 1-Ic published A more
General Theory of Commodity Bundling in the Journal ofEconomic Theoiy.
Kevin ORourke published five journal articles and chapters in books and wrote three further articles. Topics
included the political impact of the Great Depression. historical perspectives on the Euro crisis, and a survey
of world economic growth in the
20 th
century. He was also running an ERC-funded project on the interwar
economy, and serving as Programme Director of the Centre for Economic Policy Researchs Economic
Hi story programinc.
Exam ination Fe//mrs
Benjamin Gray began a new position as Chancellors Fellow in Classics in the School of History, Classics and
Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, where he undertook teaching and research in ancient Greek
history. His main research project concerns ethical and political ideas in later Hellenistic epigraphy. literature
and philosophy.
George Molyneaux completed the draft typescript of a book entitled The Formation oft/me English Kingdom in
the Tenth Centumy; published an article on an Old English treaty text; prepared a further article on notions of
divine election in the Anglo-Saxon period; and delivered a range of undergraduate lectures
Elizabeth Chatterjee continued work on her doctoral thesis on electricity policy in India. alongside teaching a
course on South Asian politics. She has a book chapter forthcoming, and her book on Delhi will be published
at the end of 2013.
Alongside her doctoral thesis on the literary and textual afterlives of John Donne, Katherine Rundell
completed an article for the London Review ofBooks and a draft of a chapter for an edited book on Donne for
CUP. She led creative writing workshops for children in state schools across England, and acted as associated
editor of the literary magazine Archipelago.
Arnia Srinivasan continued work toward her DPhil in Philosophy. A paper she co-authored was published in
The Epistemology of Disagreement (OUP), and a second paper on anti-luminosity is forthcoming in
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. She also published pieces in the London Review of Books and
The New York Times. She served as a supervisor for an undergraduate thesis and convened two seminars, one
on feminism and the other on non-canonical philosophical texts.
In this last year Arthur Downing has begun a DPhil in Economic and Social history. The thesis is a study of
sickness and death insurance cooperatives in the English speaking world and Argentina in the long nineteenth
century. He has also taught undergraduate history students and presented a number of papers at conferences.
Andreas Mogensen has continued his doctoral research. In addition, he has convened a seminar on recent
notable papers in moral philosophy running throughout the year and authored a paper commissioned by the
Disease Control Priorities Project on age-weighting of DALYs.
Frederick Wilmot-Smith continued his doctoral research and has applied for confirmation of status. He
published articles in the Cambriage Law .Journal and in an edited collection on the American Restatement of
the Law Third of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment. In addition, he gave tutorials and seminars to
undergraduate and graduate students and has laid the foundations for a series of conferences on defences to
legal liability.
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George Woudhuvsen completed his M. Phil. with a distinction. and a thesis titled A New Caesar: .Julian the
Apostale in Gaul A. D. 355 - 360. Fle presented a paper to the Princeton-Oxford-Vienna colloquium on the
transformation of elites in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. as well as to the Late Roman seminar at
Oxford. He is starting a D. Phil. thesis on The Supporters and opponents ofJuliun the Apostate, A.D355 -
365.
Clare Bucknell continued work on her doctoral thesis in eighteenth-century poetry, completing one chapter
and doing the research for another. She published an article in the .JoumnalJr Eighteenth-Century Si,idies and
has presented papers at conferences in Oxford and Connecticut. She also taught final-year students at
Magdalen College during Trinity term, and sat on Magdalens undergraduate admissions panel.
Arthur Asseraf has continued work on his doctoral thesis on colonial Algeria. He has successfully transferred
to full PhD student and is currently preparing two articles for publication. He has presented at conferences in
England, France and Algeria.
Ian Phillips has continued to work on topics in philosophy of mind and cognitive science, presenting a paper
on our perception of duration to the Aristotelian Society, and publishing papers on motion silencing in
Philosophical Studies and on individual differences in mental imagery in the collection, New Waves in
Philosophy of Mind. He has continued to work as Lecturer and Admissions Tutor in the Department of
Philosophy, University College London. However, he is shortly to become a Fellow and Tutor at St. Annes
College, Oxford.
Simon Quinn was an Examination Fellow until the end of 2012, at which time he took up a new position as a
University Lecturer in Development Economics and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of African
Economies (with a college affiliation at St Antonys). In the 201 2/2013 academic year, Simon continued his
research on firm networks in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia, as well as starting new work on community-led
NGOs in Pakistan.
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Benjamin Wardhaugh has continued to work on the history of mathematics: his recent activities have included
preparing for publication critical editions of various early modern works on the mathematics of music;
researching and writing up a short study of the reading habits of early modern mathematics students; and
beginning research for a study of the history of Euclids Elements of Geometry.
Daniel Rothschild has been researching topics in philosophy of language. linguistic semantics, and
epistemology. This year he has written articles on conditionals, tense, pragmatics and belief for philosophy
and linguistic journals. In addition, he ran a seminar series on semantics at Oxford for the Philosophy Faculty
and taught a post-graduate mini-course at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Judith Scheele returned from fieldwork in northern Chad in late October 2012. Since then, she has been busy
writing up and organising the material she collected, in view of publishing several papers and a full-length
monograph. She has submitted two such papers, finished a third, while the first chapter of the monograph is
reaching completion. Most of the arguments presented there have been tried out, over the academic year, in
seminar and conference papers. She has also co-organised a workshop on Legalism: Justice and Community
in December 2012, whose proceedings will be published as an edited volume by OUP next year.
Fiona Burnell has continued her research in theoretical condensed matter physics. and has co-authored three
published articles and three articles submitted for publication. She has also given seminars at Cambridge and
Birmingham universities, and presented an invited talk at one conference. She runs a weekly Condensed
Matte,- Theory seminar series, organised a two-day workshop on Topological Quantum In,fbrmation in
September 2012, and served on the scientific committee for a follow-up workshop in February 2013.
Ellen Clarke has continued her research into conceptual problems associated with major transitions in
evolution. She published an article in Journal ofPhilosophy, had another accepted by Journal ofBiosciences,
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and prepared a third for submission. She also gave a series of lectures on the Philosophy ofScience before
going on maternity leave in April.
Alex_Mullen has published two books with CUP: Multilinguaiisn in the Graeco-Ro,nan Worlds (20 1 2, ed.
with Patrick James) and Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean (2013). She has published other pieces on
multilingualism and epigraphy and is currently writing a book on Gaul and Britain. She has given papers in
the UK and abroad, and has lectured on Imperial and Late Latin, Roman Britain and Latin Epigraphv for the
Classics Faculty. She co-directs The Canterbury Hinterland archaeological project.
Paul-James White has been conducting research into automorphic forms. He wrote two mathematical papers,
and continued working on a book with Tasho Kaletha (Princeton), Alberto Minguez (Paris VI), and Sug Woo
Shin (MIT). He also gave a graduate course on modular forms.
Other Fellows
Jeremy Lever has continued to work in the field of development and reform of the institutions and operations
of the European Union, with particular reference this year to the problems associated with Economic and
Monetary Union and with their consequences and the potential long term effects if the United Kingdom were
to secede from the European Union. The other topic that has principally engaged his attention has been the
special difficulties faced by arbitrators in private civil litigation when called upon to decide factually complex
and not straight forward issues of competition law in an international context.
David Pannick continued in practice at the Bar and as a member of the Constitution Committee of the House
of Cords. He wrote fortnightly articles on the law in The Times, and contributed an article on contempt of
court to Public Law.
Simon Green revised and corrected paperback edition of The Passing of Protestant England: Secularisation
and Social Change, c. 1920-1960 with CUP; article on The Anti-Secular Tradition in British Historiography:
Herbert Butterfield to Maurice Cowling, in Fides et Historia, vol. 43, no. 3, 1-21; delivered paper on Geoffrey
Dawson, All Souls College and the Institute for Imperial Administration, c. 1919-1931 to an international
conference on the Tory World held at the University of Exeter; delivered paper on The Prize Fellowship since
c. 1800 to the All Souls lunchtime seminar; continued as co-editor of journal Northern History (Fall 2012/
Spring 20i3).
Magnus Ryan spent the last year working on kingship and territory in medieval law, pursuant to his book on
Roman law and medieval political thought, principally in French and italian sources. He spent September in
the Archives Nationales de France and a week at Easter in the Dipartirnento di studi storici of the University
of Milan. collaborating with Professore Andrea Gamberini and lecturing to the graduate research seminar
there. He has worked principally in Cambridge and All Souls; he continues to direct studies in Peterhouse.
Torn Seaman is a member of the Universitys Investment Committee and chairs the Universitys Estates
Committee. He also sits on the Financial Control Committee of the Ashmolean Museum. Outside the
University he is a trustee, member of Council and Honorary Treasurer of the International Institute for
Strategic Studies, where he also chairs the Investment and Audit Committees.
William Waldegrave, who is Provost of Eton, is Chair of the Royal Mint Advisory Committee, and a Trustee
of Strawberry Hill and Cumberland Lodge. He has contributed to Political Quarterly (on Bernard Crick) and
various articles in the national press.
Alexander Morrison won a Philip Leverhulme Prize in November 2012. In 2013 he published three new
articles, and continued to work on a monograph on the Russian Conquest of Central Asia. making research
trips to Kazakhstan and Georgia. In his capacity as President of the European Society for Central Asian
Studies he organised the Societys
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of History at Nazarbayev University. Astana. Kazakhstan. which he will take up in January 2014. As a result
he is resigning his Fellowship with effect from 2 November 2013.
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Hanna Pickard continued to work as a NHS Oxford Health Trust therapist for patients with personality
disorder and conduct research funded by the Welcome Trust on personality disorder and responsibility. She
is currently developing a training for prison officers based on this research as part of a joint Department of
Health and Ministry of Justice initiative to increase awareness of personality disorder and create a more
psychologically informed environment within prisons. She has also continued to conduct research on
addiction and is hosting a Frontiers on-line research topic on Alternative Models of Addiction.
James Walmsley has continued to pursue projects relating to his legal practice, including in relation to the law
of mistake and regulatory intervention in occupational pension scheme funding.
Keith Thomas is preparing a book on notions of civility and barbarism in early modern England and putting
together his collected essays. He has published review articles in the New York Review of Books, the London
Review of Books, and the TLS, served on various editorial boards and continued as chairman of the judges of
the Wolfson History Prize and a member of the Leverhulme Trusts Advisory Panel. He chairs the Trustees of
the Council for the Defence of British Universities,
Peregrine Horden continued archival work and writing on the early history of All Souls College from the
foundation to 1660, and lectured on the history of the College in the seventeenth century.
John Drury Music at Midnight: The LiJ and Poetry of George Herbert was published in September 2013 by
Allen Lane/Penguin. His Penguin Classics edition, with Victoria Moul of Kings College London, of
Herberts complete poetry is scheduled to appear next year.
Cohn Kidd continued with research on eighteenth- and nineteenth- century mythography. organised a
Chichele Seminar on The Scottish Question Past and Present, gave the annual lecture of the Scottish
Constitutional Futures Forum, delivered the Burrow Lecture at the University of Sussex, and published
articles on the Scottish provenance of Thatcherite political economy, the Union and the Constitution and
Mythical Scotland.
Andrew Scotts research addressed issues of private international law, and in particular jurisdiction and
applicable law in the field of competition law. He also edited the Private International Law chapter of the
British Yearbook of International Law.
Fraser Campbell re-entered Fellowship in summer 2013. Alongside his practice as a barrister in London.
Fraser has recently presented papers to professional conferences on legal topics such as the recent reforms to
the law on whistle-blowing.
John Redwood continued to lecture and write on the global economic and financial situation and the Euro
crisis. He gave lectures in London, Middlesex University and Oxford. I-Ic passed the CISI Level 6
examination in Private Client investment Advice and Management with a Distinction. Much of his work is
available on his daily website
Launcelot Henderson has continued to serve as a full-time judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court.
His responsibilities include the management and hearing of several group litigation claims in the field of
cross-border tax. in May 2013 he delivered the annual Chartered Tax Adviser address to the Chartered
institute of Taxation
Thomas Welsford has spent the last academic year as a VolkswagenStiftung Fellow at the Institute of Iranian
Studies in Vienna, where he has continued to work on a social history of late
19thcentury
Samarqand.
Together with Nouryaghdi Tashev. he is presently overseeing the Russian edition of his A Catalogue of
Arabic-Script Documents in the Samarqand MILeum.
Sarah Beaver is the Domestic Bursar and Academic Administrator who is responsible for the management of
the College operational expenditure and supports the Warden in the administration of the College.
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Patrick FingIs teaches Greek and Latin in the Department of Classics at the University of Nottingham,
where his research interests are in Greek tragedy and lyric poetry. His recent publications can be found at
Andrew Scott continued his research into optimal fiscal policy and debt management with papers published in
the Journal ofMoneiary Economics, Journal of Economic Theory and the Economic Journal. 1-fe was a Non-
Executive Director and Chair of Risk Committee at the FSA, on the advisory board of the Office for Budget
Responsibility and Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister of Mauritius
Birke Hacker continues to work on various private law topics from a comparative and historical perspective.
She has published a number of papers relating to the law of contract, succession, unjust enrichment and
property and co-edited a book entitled Rest it ution of Oveipaid Tax (Hart Publishing, 2013).
Apart from teaching, Wolfgang de Melo has spent the last academic year working on his edition and
translation of Varros Dc lingua Latina. A draft of text and translation is almost finished, but will require
further work before a commentary accompanying the text can be started.
Chris Frith completed his series of seminars on metacognition and is currently collaborating on writing an
account of explicit metacognition and communication. He published articles on volition, on the we-mode, and
on schizophrenia. and gave lectures at The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, at the Hpital de Ia Salptrire.
and at Harvard University.
honorary and Emeriti
James Adams book Social Variation and the Latin Language (pp. 932) was published by Cambridge
University Press in June 2013. He has also continued his work on the compilation of an anthology of fifty
informal Latin texts from the second century B.C. to the ninth century AD and has completed the
commentary on thirty-nine of them. He is also working on a collaborative project with two others on the
functions and history in Latin of a pattern of words (so-called asyndeton bimembre) with Indo-European
antecedents.
Margaret Bent published a book, with Robert Klugseder, A Veneto Liber cantus (c. 1440,): Fragments in the
Baverische Staatsbihliothel Munich. and the Osterreichische Nationaihibliothek, Vienna (Reichert.
Wiesbaden, 2012). Twelve further articles await publication, some now in proof. She continues to work with
Oxford students and to run a seminar series on Medieval and Renaissance Music.
Robin Briggs is a member of the Council of the British Academy, and of the committee of the Society for the
Study of French History. He is working on a book covering the history of North-Western Europe from c. 400
A.D. to 1914. His chapter on The Rhine-Moselle Borderlandc was published in The Oxford Handbook of
Witchcratl (ed B. Levack). and another chapter on La sorceilerie dans la Lorraine des temps modernes
appeared in the catalogue of a major exhibition on Lorraine in the Renaissance period. Articles in press
include From Deviiry to Sainthood: Mere .Jeanne des Anges and the Catholic Reform, and The Gailican
Context for PascaL Writings on Grace.
Myles Burnyeats research continues to advocate the merits both historical and philosophical of reading
Platos Republic in 6 Books rather than the 10-Book version standard today: the same text, word for word.
but divided into larger chunks. While both formats were current in antiquity, neither designed by Plato, the 6-
Book version unblocks the common assumption that our Book I is a mere dialogue of refutation, which was
or could have been published on its own.
Roger Hood presented his report to the European Parliament on Enhancing EU Action Against the Death
Penalty in Asia in October 2012. in June 2013 he opened a plenary session of the World Congress Against
the Death Penalty in Madrid and in early July launched his report The Death Penalty in MalaJsia. Public
Opinion on the Mandatory Death Penalty for Drug Trafficking, Murder and Firearms OflCnces at the
Malaysia Bar Council in Kuala Lumpur.
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Vaughan Lowe continued to supervise research students, to edit a number of journals and series of
monographs on aspects of international law, and to write articles and book chapters. He sat on a number of
arbitral tribunals organised under the auspices of the World Bank, and appeared in cases in the International
Court ofJustice, the Permanent Court ofArbitration, and the Court ofiustice ofthe European Union.
Avner Offer has published five articles (three of them refereed), two book chapters. and a long discussion
paper, in his research fields of consumption, well-being and the transition to market liberalism. A book on the
Nobel Prize in economics is coming closer to completion. He spent a month in Australia on a fellowship.
Overseas presentations were given in Melbourne, Moscow, Milan, and Utrecht.
David Parkin is an affiliate of the Max Planck institute for Religious and Etimic Diversity in Gottingen
(Germany). researching and publishing on medical and sociolinguistic diversity, including most recently a co
edited special issue of Anthropology and Medicine. Therapeutic Crises Diversflcation and A1ainsfreaining,
Volume 20, Issue 2. 2013. He has co-organized and spoken at international conferences at universities in
Cape Town, Beijing, Chengdu, Jyvaskyla, Manchester and Oxford during the 2012/13 academic year. Re is
principal investigator of an on-going research and publication project on coastal Kenya with Japanese
colleagues, funded by the Japan Research Foundation.
Peter Pulzer contributed to a symposium on Architecture and inwardness in Vienna, conducted by Professor
Joseph Koerner at Clare f-tall, Cambridge. He lectured in Oxford and at the University of Sussex on the
eightieth anniversary of the appointment of Hitler as German Chancellor. in December 2012 he was awarded
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa by the University of Vienna. His contribution to German
.Jewry Between Hope and Despair was published in the spring of 2013. He is continuing to work on his
monograph State, Society and Parties in Germany.
Michael Screech published A,-u Eikokz4in futsubungalcusha ga semen jidai ni inita shsenchokugo no iVihon
(What a certain Englishman, a Student ofFrench Literature, Saw in his Lout/i ofImmediate Postwar Japan.),
a spoken-history conversation with Dr Misa Hirashima; in Chky Daiga/cu Shakai kagaku kenky [Social
Sciencesj.volurne 33, no 1.
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1-48 and a new edition of his translation of Michel de Montaignes Essays is
now printing.
Graeme Segal has been writing two books, one on The Mathematics of Quantum Field Theory and the other
on The Classification of Manifolds. He has presented parts of these works in lectures and short courses in
Oxford and elsewhere, most recently Stanford, Mexico. Stony Brook, Bristol, and Liverpool. He has also
written an account of the work of Daniel Quillen which has been published by both the European and the
American Mathematical Societies, and served as president of the London Mathematical Society.
Amartya Sen taught Economics, Philosophy, History and Law at Harvard (as Thomas W. Lamont University
Professor), authored An Uncertain Glory: india and Its Contradictions (Penguin and Princeton University
Press) jointly with Jean Drze, and published a number of articles in professional journals and in the public
media.
Eva Margareta Steinbys current project is the complete edition of Roman hrickstamps from Central Italy and
a database of the stamps in collaboration with the lstituto Centrale di Catalogo e Documentazione, Rome.
Guenter Treitels main publication in the year to 31 July 2013 has consisted of five chapters (461 pages) to the
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edition of Chilly on Contracts. The text of these chapters is (in spite of the books title) his original work.
Charles Webster is primarily engaged in work on Theophrastus von Hohenheirn (known also as Paracelsus).
Following on from his recent Yale UP book, which was mainly concerned with religious and social thinking
of Paracelsus, he is at an advanced stage of a further book, mainly concerned with the scientific and medical
work for which Paracelsus is particularly well known. His aim, as with the previous book, is to take full
account of the recent literature and to adopt a fresh perspective.
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Martin West has published two books, Hellenica II: Drama and Lyric and The Epic Cycle: a Commentary on
the Lost Tray Epics (both OUP), and two articles. He has also completed a book on The Making of the
odyssey, and started work on a critical edition of the poem. He has given a public lecture in Athens and taken
part in a multi-disciplinary symposium on Civilization at Avesta, Sweden.
Andrew Wilkinson is calTying out a review of the biographies and obituaries of all the Fellows of All Souls
who have been qualified in the practice of medicine. He is a Board member of the National Neonatal Audit
and Data Analysis Programmes and the international member ofthe Vermont Oxford Network Board,
Visiting Fellows (Terms in residence and parent academic institution)
Brigitte Bauer (Hilary Term, University of Texas) made good progress with her new project on the creation of
new grammatical forms in Late Latin and early romance languages, and found evidence to suggest that the
phenomena she was studying could cast light on grammaticalization in other Indo-European languages. She
gathered a large corpus of texts and did the ground work for four articles.
F3jEpc1pp_(Hilary and Trinity Terms, University of Toronto) completed two articles on the apparently
impossible task of rationally balancing incommensurable values in decision-making, and delivered papers at a
number of fora in Europe and the UK on various aspects of this topic.
Thomas Gallanis (Michaelmas, Hilary, and Trinity Terms, University of Iowa) made good progress with his
edition for the Selden Society of the judicial notes of Sir Dudley Ryder, who served as Chief Justice of the
Court of Kings Bench from 1754 until his death in 1756.
Stuart Gillespie (Michaelmas Term, University of Glasgow) made an excellent start on his research into The
Culture of English Literajy Translation 1650-1 750, unearthing hitherto neglected translations of Juvenal and
Ovid in the Bodleian. He presented a number of papers at Oxford and elsewhere.
Peter Hupe (Michaelmas Tenn, University of Rotterdam) collected a systematic inventory of our knowledge
of street-level bureaucracy (social workers, teachers, police officers and other public servants) and
discretionary action, and revised four theoretical papers on this topic for publication.
Anthony King (Michaelmas, Hilary, and Trinity Terms, Exeter University) completed a monograph on
infantry tactics and cohesion and organised a major conference within the Changing Character of War
programme. He also presented a number of papers, and began work on studies of the sociology of the
Divisional Headquarters as well as a Durkheimian Theory of Social Change.
Isabella Lazzarini (Michaelmas Term, Universit degli Studi del Molise) planned the outlines of and gathered
the material for her study of Italian diplomatic practices in the late Middle Ages, in which she benefitted from
Oxford library resources and from conversation with Oxford Medievalists and Fellows of the College.
Beverly Lemire (Hilary Term, University of Alberta) found rich materials for her research on the history of
Atlantic trade and fashion in the Bodleian and the British library.
David Levene (Hilary Term, New York University) completed a detailed commentary on the section of the
Periochae (a summary of lost books of Livy) dealing with the Pyrrhic war (280-75 BC), which include a
number of new historical and textual discoveries.
Gauthier Liberman (Trinity Term, Universit de Bordeaux 3) made substantial advances with his edition of
Thucydides for the Oxford Classical Texts, making use of the resources of the Sackler, of the Codrington, and
of Corpus Christi libraries in particular. He also gave seminars with Professor Hornblower and Professor
Pelling.
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Thomas Nevins (Trinity Term, University of Illinois) collaborated with Kevin McGerty at Christ Church to
develop a computable combinatorial solution to a problem concerning D-modules with symmetry, and has
also worked on the development ofa new geometric tool, symplectic Springer theory.
Angela Nuovo (Michaelmas Term, Universt degli Studi di Udine) completed extensive research on the
Gabiano letters, which provide remarkable insights into the nature of the book-trade in early sixteenth-century
Venice. The holdings of the Bodleian and Codrington Libraries were crucial in enabling her to identify the
printing productions of the Gabiano family. She also completed an essay on the price of books in Italy in the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and presented a number of papers.
Jeanne Shami (Michaelmas and Hilary Terms, University of Regina) made substantial advances in her work
on women as owners, readers, and annotators of early modem sermons, developed her work on the Oxford
Donne letters project, as well as on the Variorum edition of Donnes letters. in collaboration with Oxford
scholars and archivists she has developed a proposal for a database of manuscript sermons.
Richard Schwartz (Michaelmas, Hilary, and Trinity Terms, Brown University) wrote a research monograph
about polygon exchange transformations, a research article about certain tilings of the plane constructed out of
line segments, and a childrens book about really big numbers (which included some hidden All Souls
insignia). He also thought about several additional topics in geometry and dynamical systems.
Peter Solar (Trinity Term, Vesalius College) made good progress with his book about Ireland and Britain
during the Industrial Revolution, but was diverted from it by his growing interest in global economic history,
including the history of shipping, on which he completed more than one article.
Alexis Tadie (Michaelmas, Hilary, Trinity Terms, Universit Paris-Sorbonne) continued his work as director
of the AGON project, a French-funded research network which studies quarrels and debates in the early
modern period, under the aegis of which he ran a number of conferences. He developed his own work on the
debates between the ancients and the modems, as well as investigating more physical forms of debate such as
duelling. He also completed a study of Francis Bacon.
Steven Wolinsky (Trinity Term, Northwestern University) has come to understand that if we wish to describe
how fast HIV is growing and evolving inside someone we need to consider replication in multiple sites as well
as the blood. Professor Wolinsky worked with scientists in Oxford to create a mathematical model of the
growth and evolution of FI1V at multiple sites inside an H1V infected person. These models are motivated by
large datasets collected by Professor Wolinskys laboratory and will in turn inform the design of further
observations. The overarching aim is to reach a better understanding of how to treat H1V in order to reach the
locations inside people where long-term infection persists.
Peter Wright (Michaelmas, University of Nottingham) undertook a codicological study of the Aosto Codex,
and has developed a clearer understanding of how this manuscript of early fifteenth-century polyphony was
compiled. He also completed the proofs of his edition of Ffteenth-Century Liturgical Music.
Approved by the Governing Body on 7 December 2013 and signed on its behalf by:
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